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Publication details [#56648]
Guidi, Annarita. 2012. Are pun mechanisms universal? A comparative analysis across language families. Humor 25 (3) : 339–366. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article presents a new pun definition, enabling to describe the phenomenon from a crosslinguistic perspective (across language families), and stresses the universality of puns as verbal humorous phenomena, deploying normal phonetic processes.